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Putting her own interpretation on the boss's orders is an old trademark of Veteran Newshen Caldwell. In 1937, while on the staff of the city's News-Herald, she went to England to cover the coronation. She passed up the ceremony to attend a Punch & Judy show ("I couldn't stand all the fuss"), filed a long coronation story to her paper the next day with a footnote confessing she had seen it all in the newsreels...
...Newshen Marguerite Higgins...
...McCormick's sanctum flew open. Out strode the colonel's niece, 30-year-old Ruth McCormick Miller, editor of his Washington Times-Herald. Mad as a wet hen, she took the elevator to the lobby, hustled off to her suite in the Ambassador East Hotel. There Newshen "Bazy" confirmed a fast-spreading rumor: she had just had a "heated showdown-not loud but emphatic"-with Bertie McCormick. Furthermore, she was all washed up as boss of the Times-Herald...
...Wrote Newshen Fleeson: "The McCarthy admirers have apparently obliged with threatening communications of a type extremely familiar to columnists and commentators who have ventured to comment on the Senator's un-American habit of making unsubstantiated charges and on his curious state income tax returns...
Correspondent Higgins travels light, usually carries only a typewriter and a musette bag of toilet gear, eats & sleeps where she can (often on the ground), insists on no billeting favors because of her sex. As an all-round journalist, Newshen Higgins may not be quite up to her Trib colleague, Homer Bigart (with whom her feud for beats is already a Korean legend), or with some of the other crack correspondents in Korea. But she tries to make up for it by getting up earlier, and if necessary, working 24 hours a day. Said one colleague: "There's nothing...